chorography

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Bring back Ostermeier But, hergest7 and PoundDollarEuro felt differently.Hergest7 said: I thought that the chorography of the actors as the set spun around was really clever and interesting.In its treatment of relationships the play seemed contemporary even though the "forged signature" device is clearly only relevant to the 19th century.Really impressed by the Young Vic as a theatre.

From The Guardian

—Your correspondents have neglected to observe that this author's Chorography of Britain was published by Gale, "ad calcem Antonini Iter Britanniarum," viz.,

From Project Gutenberg

Chorography, kō-rog′ra-fi, n. the description of the geographical features of a particular region.—adjs.

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It is distinguished from cosmography by dealing Cluverius. with the earth alone, not with the universe, and from chorography and topography by dealing with the whole earth, not with a country or a place.

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Ptolemy used the word geography to signify the description of the whole oekumene on mathematical principles, while chorography signified the fuller description of a particular region, and topography the very detailed description of a smaller locality.

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